Observations on the diseases of the liver, and on the effects of mercury in their treatment : with some account of the scrofulo-schirrus, or, consumption of the liver / by Thomas Mills.

  • Mills, Thomas.
Date:
1811
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Credit: Observations on the diseases of the liver, and on the effects of mercury in their treatment : with some account of the scrofulo-schirrus, or, consumption of the liver / by Thomas Mills. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ks calling into action disorders .which, might otewis^ have lain dormant. In the descriptiori of this.disease writers dwell principaUy on the -pain in the tegiQAipf the Liver, increased on jiressure and occasionally shootin|f toWartU the right, shoulder, accompanied ;by/a .plight •fever, and a sense of weight or un,ea:?».^l€Ss of ithe i^igl<t lh3^.ochbndre, especially \Vhen the patient h^^ MipOn thp left side ; an_dit]^eso symptoms, itiisi£ri^«!^, cliaracteri)>eLthp disease,'but .it isrjiien advUnced br; doh^ifaedy.'.wlieftvour eilbrts to ehficlr .'its progi-ess too .afteoi; prowe stiriavajlingi; tfiis history, therefore, is impeffjjd, because the synaptoius of the ;first stage ai-e : unnoticed, a knowledge ofi which -:is necessary to obviate the occurrence,>of, the : second, and to prevent thie rise of more dangerous affections, i -. •. ./'A b .•< , j .•i''i.noi. ;;>iJ '.r^) In most instances, the natural functrons are first dis- tuiTjed, a dnmnution or depravation or appetite ushers in the compiamt, attended by flatulency and uneasmess oi stomach anci bowcfs, and by eriictations, bitter, sourish ••iUOMUiio'.). ....1^ iffn. i-.i•->• . .b; •; 70 tiinn •or otncnviBe ottensive; diarrhoea sometimes occurs, con- ., ••: -ji-: :. ^. -.i' I'ons.b stipation rrequently, accompanied by tormmaor tenesmus; ' a* sexfSatibn^ oT idieat and weight rather' than of pain'of atdomen'cdmnVe'nces withV ' supeiVenes'-to^' ike ^^ove symptonrt; this sensation is referred to tne'Vight or left , ... V,::.. t> .1; tl-- .jini Ijypochoiidre, to the epipstric or hypogastric regfon, or, Id the idihs of sternum;—a^tcaz^^^ miidlitis V^xpectoVn'fibh arc mostty pVe^^Wt/'dys^hi^a fs f^1r6